Ilya V. Zarubin

Ilya Vladislavovich Zarubin (2 July 1884-16 January 1937) was a CPSU politican.

Biography
Ilya V. Zarubin was born on 2 July 1884 in Mogilev, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire to a family of Orthodox Christian Russians. Zarubin took part in the 1905 Revolution against Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and he was sent to Siberia in a prison as a result. However, in 1917 he was freed in the Russian Revolution when the Soviet Union took power, and Zarubin became a convinced member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Zarubin was made an inspector of working rights in a group of factories, and he reported back to the government on unfair labor laws passed by greedy owners. Zarubin indirectly turned over factory owners during the Great Purge of the 1930s, and in 1937 Zarubin himself was arrested by Josef Stalin in his purge of the original communist party members. He was shot on 16 January 1937 in Moscow for "treason".